Big thanks to everyone who was at the Birchmere show with us and Jonathan Coulton, old friends and new. Some of the highlights for us:
- Panties!!!! Some of the most inventive and sexy undergarments hurled at us to date.
- The level of participatory enthusiasm, including lusty singing-along, great pirate-y fervor, and the occasional clever quip
- Jonathan’s now nearly-famous "turn to the left" during "Nugget Man" (you had to be there)
- The exhilarating/terriftying stuffed animal torrent during the encore with JoCo
- And, of course, the incredible treatment we always get at the Birchmere from the entire staff. We’ve said it before, but from an artist’s point of view there is no better venue in the country.
COMING UP: Peoria, IL this weekend at the Jukebox Comedy Club, another P&S favorite. We’re packing lots of new material since our last visit, and are looking forward to spraying it all over the room like a cat marking its territory.
ALSO…a song of ours will be debuting as part of a new documentary about the Silver Spring B&O Railroad Station. Seriously. It’s not a comedy song, nor is it performed by us (in fact, WE haven’t even heard it yet!), but you can hear "Gracie at the Tastee" sometime during ‘‘Next Stop: Silver Spring,” airing on WETA-TV (Washington, DC PBS station) channel 26 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.
A quick note to thank everyone at MarsCon for being so gentle with us for our first sci-fi convention experience; it was good for us too. It was great to see many of the popular Dementia artists under one roof, including many folks we’d never seen live before (including Rob Balder, Worm Quartet, Sudden Death, Hot Waffles, and the Gothsicles, among many others.)
Also, great big thanks to everyone working at the Con, and especially the Great Luke Ski, who’d been telling us for years how much fun it was and how great the crowds were. Right on both counts, Mr. Ski–we salute you for your persistence!
Side note: special thanks to Sharon (not that Sharon) for turning us on to Jun Bo for dim sum–as good as we’ve had anywhere!
Here’s another video from last week’s San Francisco trip, as we were dispatched to pick up ukulelist and fellow sideman (sideperson?) Kristen Shirts and her husband Patrick from the airport. More of that glamorous rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle comin’ at ya!
So we’ve finally pretty much recovered from last weekend’s live concert DVD shoot with Jonathan Coulton (and we didn’t even have that much to do; imagine how Coulton feels!)—just in time to go winging off to Minnesota and our very first SF convention, MarsCon.
In the meantime, we are all over the multiples of media these days. Okay, maybe not "all over" them, but we make a couple appearances. First off, our good friend Len has made another visual interpretation of one of our songs—this time, it’s "Nugget Man", and we think it’s his best work yet for us. Click the image over there on the right for a larger version.
Second, don’t forget about Storm’s Left Arm Comix, which he updates regularly. It’s just like us, but in line-drawing form.
Lastly, we had a lot of free time in San Francisco, so we did what we do best: eat. Here’s a video we put up on the Youtubes chronicling Paul and Storm’s Big SF Dim Sum Adventure. Four whole minutes of us stuffing our big fat melons. (In widescreen, for no apparent reason) What more could you want on a Thursday morning?
It’s been sold out for nearly two months, but we’d still like folks to come out and create a menacing throng outside of the Great American Music Hall in SanFrancisco, where we’ll be opening for/adding sound to Jonathan Coulton’s set, which is being taped for posterity (whoever that is.)
Lots more touring coming up in the coming months. Until then, watch this space for more music and , a new one added every day or two, here.
Danny Franks recently posted this awesome video version of our rejected commercial jingle, "Pillsbury Cookie Dough", and he pretty much nails it. Good on you, Danny Franks, you magnificent shirtless bastard! You are officially chock full o’ win.
Get this: we just found out that our song "A Better Version of You" is a finalist in the 2007 International Songwriting Competition in the "Comedy/Novelty" category. (Okay, actually, we’ve know for a couple weeks; they’ve only just now announced the finalists to the general public, and now we can talk about it.) Next, the group of 16 songs, which includes work by some friends and acquaintances of ours, including Sean Morey, Carla Ulbrich, and Flying Like Wilma, gets sent to the judges—Cheech Marin, David Cross, and "Weird Al" Yankovic (btw did you ever think you’d see those three names in the same sentence?)—and the winner gets announced sometime in April.
But wait; there’s more…there’s another prize being offered for the "People’s Voice" Award; you can listen to all the finalists in all categories, and vote for your favorite once per day. We know we’ll never really win this category, because we’re not a model-beautiful 22-year-old female singer-songwriter; but it would be nice if we can mobilize our Netterwebs minions (and perhaps a few partisan sympathizers from the Coulton Nation?) and at least make the ISC organizers sweat for a bit that they might actually have to give us the award. You can vote once per day, so go to town.
As you may have noticed by this point, we’ve fiddled with the look and feel of the site a bit—a new top banner here, a new left-hand sidebar there. Hope you all like it. We’ll be slowly making other changes in the coming weeks/months. Let us know if you spot any problems, though; after all, you are our beta testers. (And volunteers, at that. You’re all so generous!)
Get this: we just found out that our song "
As you may have noticed by this point, we’ve fiddled with the look and feel of the site a bit—a new top banner here, a new left-hand sidebar there. Hope you all like it. We’ll be slowly making other changes in the coming weeks/months. Let us know if you spot any problems, though; after all, you are our beta testers. (And volunteers, at that. You’re all so generous!)
